Nelson Algren Quotes
The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
Quotes to Explore
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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I just write mechanical things.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.
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One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
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To be honest, I deliberately tend not to post things like 'I'm having a relationship' or where I live. I'm a bit reluctant to keep this kind of information up to date because people are inclined to see things like that as statements, and I rather keep a little bit of privacy, if possible at all.
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I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.
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Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
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I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab.
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The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
